Saturday Night Freak Show

This week, Brent celebrates 2015 with a look back at Back to the Future Part II (1989), in which 1985 era Marty and Doc travel to 2015 (and an alternate 1985, and 1955 - again!) and we get a glimpse of what the future looked like from the lens of 1989 (when the movie was made). Where are the flying cars? Join us as we plow through motion picture sci-fi history with our breakdown of Back to the Future Part II on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Gary bids us adieu with his exit pick of Moon 44 (1990), a sci-fi thriller from Roland (Independence Day) Emmerich, which stars Michael (Streets of Fire) Pare as an internal affairs officer sent to investigate corruption on a deep-space mining colony. Join us as we talk about copycat filmmakers, under-emoting actors (Pare), over-emoting actors (Malcolm McDowell), Blackhawks in space, and more on this week's exciting space-based episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis takes us to South Korea with his pick of Save the Green Planet (2003), about a man who, believing that aliens from the planet Andromeda are plotting to invade the Earth, kidnaps a pharmaceutical executive (whom he believes to be an alien) and tortures him in his subterranean lair. Meanwhile, a rumpled detective closes in. Listen as we talk about a movie that mixes comedy, horror, and sci-fi in this week's bizarre motion picture stew. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin takes us on the psycho-sexual Christmastime odyssey which is Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). After Dr. Harford's (Tom Cruise) wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, he becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter to even the score. Listen as we deconstruct masked orgies, the Illuminati, and Freudian symbolism in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we review Gary's pick: State of Grace (1990), in which an Irish guy (Sean Penn) has to determine where his loyalties lie when he returns home to New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, and immediately falls in with hellraiser Gary Oldman and his mob family. Listen as the Irish members of the podcast come out in force and wreak havoc in booze and cigarettes in this exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis has the power of Greyskull as we watch his pick of Masters of the Universe (1987), an adaptation of the Mattel toy line which stars Dolph Lundren (rockin' an awesome 80's mullet) as He-Man, a muscular warrior who comes to Earth to battle the evil Skeletor (Frank Langella). Listen as we uncover the history of MOTU toys, fiction, and relish in Langella's performance on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we take a look back at Colin's pick, House of Wax (1953), the movie that kicked off Hollywood's longstanding love-hate relationship with 3-D. After his wax museum burns down, a sculptor (horror icon Vincent Price) returns with a thirst for revenge, prowling the gaslit streets of New York to hunt victims for his new, "life-like" wax museum exhibit. Listen as we explore the evolution of 3-D technology and the horror film in this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Gary has come to kick ass and chew bubblegum with his pick of John Carpenter's They Live (1988), in which a drifter uncovers a secret alien conspiracy with the help of special sunglasses. Listen as we revel in the delights of 6 minute fight scenes, conspiracy theories, and discover Gary's all out of bubblegum on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

100th episode! This week, Travis takes us to watch human vs. alien boxing in Arena (1989), in which a short-order cook becomes the first human in 50 years to fight in an intergalactic boxing ring against a menagerie of monstrous prize fighters. Enter the Saturday Night Freak Show grudge match as we slug our way through this rubber-creature outer space shlockfest! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we watch Colin's pick of the restored, director's cut of Clive Barker's much-maligned 1990 monster epic Nightbreed. A troubled canuck survives his own death and searches out the hidden city of Midian, an underground city where monsters live, as his girlfriend, a psychopathic psychiatrist, and a mob of rednecks, close in. Listen to our thesis-worthy analysis of Clive Barker's fiction, film work, and reoccurring themes in this episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Brent brings Freddy Krueger to our Halloween weekend podcast with his pick of 1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. This entry in the long-running horror series finds Freddy (Robert Englund) haunting the dreams of a group of teens in a mental hospital, and facing off against his chief antagonist from the first Nightmare, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp). Join us, and special guest Dave the BBQ man, as we break down the enduring appeal of one of horror's touchstone characters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Gary discovers that fear is a place in Brad Anderson's Session 9 (2001), in which chronicles the exploits of a hazmat crew tasked with cleaning up the old Danvers Lunatic Asylum. As psychological stress triggers cracks in all the men, a more sinister force may also have been awakened by their presence. Listen as we diagnose the case for your listening edification and enjoyment on this week's exciting episode! And, Tom is back! (This podcast contains SPOILERS!) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis dumps his Girlfriend from Hell (1989) on us! In the movie, the inventor of the condom (Twin Peaks' Dana Ashbrook), now God's bounty hunter, tracks down the Devil who has taken possession of a high-school wallflower to feed on human souls via sex. Sound crazy? It is! Listen as we dissect this morsel of late-80's direct-to-video mayhem on this week's podcast! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we bid farewell to Sean with his final Freak Show pick of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - Producer's Cut (1995), an alternate version of the 6th entry in the long-running slasher movie franchise. This outing reveals that the origins behind the un-killable Michael Myers lie in druid mysticism as The Shape returns to Haddonfield to slaughter yet another distant family relation (and anyone else who tickles his fancy.) Come help us bid farewell to Sean along with his brothers and the rest of the Freak Show gang on this family affair episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Colin asks "what are you afraid of? It's only rock n' roll!" with his pick of the 1986 heavy metal horror movie, Trick or Treat, which finds an outcast high school metal-head summoning his rocker idol from the dead to get payback on his tormentors. The film features cameo appearances by metal icons Gene Simmon (KISS) and Ozzy Osbourne. Join us as we fire up the turntable and raise the dead on this week's exciting episode and prove that rock's chosen warriors will rule the apocalypse! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Brent returns us to the glory days of the 1990's independent cinema movement with Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 (1998), a film in which Gallo (who wrote and directed) plays a troubled ex-con who abducts Christina Ricci and forces her to play his wife in a bid to win his parents affection. Come with us, won't you, into our navel-gazing exploration of deep thoughts, Jungian symbolism, and belly laughs in this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis bathes us in the glory of the cult classic The Toxic Avenger (1984), in which a 90 lb weakling is transformed, by a canister of toxic waste, into a hulking superhero who mops up the trash-filled streets of Tromaville, USA. Camp classic or tasteless crap? Let the Internet Radio Superstars of the Saturday Night Freak Show be your guide through the cinematic sewer on this week's exciting episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we revel in the euro-horror delights of Colin's pick, 1971's Daughters of Darkness, in which John Karlen (Dark Shadows) and his new bride, vacationing abroad, find themselves holed-up in an opulent, off-season hotel with a lesbian vampire (who may or may not be the infamous blood countess, Elisabeth Bathory) and her seductive assistant. Is this one of the great, forgotten vampire-movie masterpieces? Or a forgettable piece of grindhouse-meets-arthouse trash? Find out on this week's exciting show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Brent chooses Terrence Malick's 1973 road drama Badlands, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as young lovers who embark on a spree-killing trip through the rural Southwest. The movie, loosely based on the real-life murders of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, was adopted into the National Film Registry in 1993. Join us at the bar as we talk James Dean, counterculture, the influence of the film on Quentin Tarantino, and more on this week's scholarly episode of film talk! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Travis investigates Robert Englund's directorial debut, 976-EVIL (1988), in which an alienated teen is granted the power to get even after dialing a satanic phone number. Listen in as we slather ourselves in 80's horror cheese dive into a world of overbearing parents, awkward dates, bathroom bullies, supernatural shenanigans, and flying fish. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.